On Friday, I was watching an interview on CNN with a woman who supports Donald Trump. The CNN blond news-reader was incapable of understanding why someone who was Hispanic could dare support a person who said such bad things about Mexico and illegal immigrants. I gather the news reader did not get the memo that there are Spanish speaking individuals from countries other than Mexico. I gather they’ve also not read the headlines from the past few years about Mexico being a country in chaos due to crime and drug cartels. Evidently they did not bother covering the story about actress Ali Landry’s family being slaughtered in Mexico, just this past month. I guess they don’t realize that even the State Department recognizes how dangerous Mexico can be. Donald Trump is right. Mexico is a very dangerous country, with the chaos only growing worse by the month.

I live in New Mexico. Most of the people I know here have genealogy that includes Hispanic DNA. The reason I say Hispanic DNA, and not mention ‘Hispanic’ as a generic minority block is because here in New Mexico Hispanic background is the majority. Also, I don’t know a single person of Hispanic DNA who considers themselves a minority and pegged as a special voting block. They consider themselves highly patriotic Americans, who have Hispanic DNA the same as I have Celtic, Norman, and a dollop of German. It isn’t about politics. If it is – well, most Hispanics I know vote Republican.

The other day I was on Twitter with a person who considered herself ‘Latino’. That is a designation that is regional. If you live in Texas or New Mexico it is Hispanic, and it is NOT political. Latino, used out of California, is the politics of minority voting blocks.

Trying to turn Hispanics into a minority population as a typical Democrat voting block is just plain racist. Like the blond news-reader on CNN told the Trump fanatic, she is Hispanic. Because she is Hispanic, she should be not be supporting Trump or Republicans. Never mind that the woman is an individual, a person, with her own likes and dislikes. To CNN, all she was, unfortunately, to them, was a statistic, someone who should be voting Democrat because she came from Mexico.

The people I know who were born in Mexico and are now American citizens are rabid Republicans. One considers Trump something of a ‘clown’, but refuses to be put into a minority shoe box. I haven’t talked to my friend Carol, other than the fact that I know she is a solid supporter of Lindsey, as am I.

It’s too bad Democrats can’t comprehend that people are individuals and not specific voting blocks. All they can see is that vote, that minority, to be pandered too, and treated like some sort of minority infant, without the mentality to process the fact that they’re being treated like fodder, and nothing more.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

SJ Reidhead (aka The Pink Flamingo) is a writer based in New Mexico. The author of two published novels, both westerns: Dust Devil and The Second Mrs. Earp and two published works of non-fictions: TRAVESTY: Frank Waters Earp Agenda Exposed and A Church for Helldorado, Endicott Peabody's 1882 Tombstone Diary. One of the leading authorities on the life of Wyatt Earp and Tombstone during the Earp years, she is writing a series of murder mysteries set in modern day Tombstone. The author is also working on a book about fashion in the Wild West. When complete, there will be over 2100 unpublished antique photographs dating from 1855-1910.

The author's work has appeared in Wild West, True West, Blogcritics, and The Tombstone Times. Recently the author has had to deal with a father who succumbed to Alzheimer's Disease. This is leading to a book dealing with the frustrations of dealing with the frustrations of the disease, finance, legal, health-care, and things no one bothers telling families about it. A portion of the book will contain entries from a blog she kept, detailing the struggle with her father's AD. She is also working on a murder mystery series set in modern day Tombstone and Cochise County. Several books of essays on Christian living are currently in edits. A book of essays and revisions of articles about Wyatt Earp has been completed and will include her latest work detailing her theory about the murder of his second wife, Mattie.

SJ Reidhead has been involved in Republican politics since she was 'a little kid'. During the Reagan years she was a lobbyist working with various non-profit organizations who were attempting to salvage NASA and the American space program after the disastrous Carter years. In spite of ups and downs, and numerous disappointments, politically, it is obvious the only political hope for this country is via the Republican Party. Along with politics she is an opera fanatic, has been known to stalk baritones to the point of being a baritone junkie, and loves baseball.

The Pink Flamingo went on line on October 4, 2005.

THE PINK FLAMINGO STORY

It started out as a joke. During the seven years I worked with the girls of my parish, leading a youth group, one of the things that I stressed were manners. Part of having manners, the way I see it, is to know how to set a proper table, host a party, cater it, and clean up afterward. I was fortunate enough to have a group of very talented girls in my youth group. They learned how to plan for, and execute large church functions, very properly. During one such function I noticed there were several incredibly tacky pink flamingos sitting on the table. Knowing the girls were up to something, I said nothing. A few months later they did the same thing at a function I was hosting at my home. I said nothing. They had a birthday party for me. More pink flamingos appeared - and a joke was born.

Thanks to the girls, all of whom are now grown, I have a collection of pink flamingos. It has become an ongoing joke. When I began working on my political blog, I realized the only possibly title was The Pink Flamingo!